The environmental science program at Norwich provides students an interdisciplinary environmental education applicable to a broad range of interests and career paths related to the environment. Each student’s area of specialization is developed by selecting a minor within a traditional academic discipline. The result is a broad range of combinations of emphasis, which allows students to match employment opportunities with their own personal interests.
Norwich’s various pathways to an environmental science degree all result in a highly respected, rigorous curriculum with a science foundation recognized for its breadth and depth. This approach prepares graduates for an extraordinarily wide range of career options, including direct entrance into graduate school in a variety of disciplines.
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Students are offered abundant hands-on experience in problem solving, and many courses include projects involving ongoing studies of active environmental problems. Norwich University is located in the valley floor of the Dog River and is surrounded by wide biological and geological diversity within walking distance. This setting lends itself to our program’s emphasis on outdoor fieldwork and problem solving. All of our students take a pair of capstone courses involving participation in original research, often coordinated with faculty research and often involving extensive travel.
Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the environmental science degree, defining the faculty, equipment and facilities serving the program is difficult. Except the capstone courses noted above, all of the courses belong to a traditional discipline and are taught by faculty from those disciplines. The modest size of the program ensures its personalized family atmosphere, with attentive advising from a faculty of professionally engaged academicians. Students have access to an exceptional variety of equipment and facilities of all the science and engineering programs.
I see global population and urbanization issues, along with the depletion of natural resources, as the biggest problems of our future, and I want to be part of the solution.
Employment opportunities remain excellent throughout the environmental industry as environmental managers, environmental scientists, recycling managers, engineering consultants, toxic waste managers, lawyers, real estate historians and ecopreneurs remain in high demand. Basically, the list is endless since the job market has a need for the combination of an environmental science background and any discipline. Moreover, as host of the Vermont Environmental Consortium, Norwich offers its environmental science students a first-rate environmental education that translates into greater employment potential for graduates.
